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The scientific name for the elephant is "elephas". This word means antlered breast and stag. Proboscidae is the order of elephants. It means animals that have trunks. The family the elephant is in is the elephantidae family. The meaning of the word elephant is if you split the word into two parts "ele" means arch and "phant" means huge. Manatees, dugongs, and hyraxes and the closest living relatives to the elephant. There is about an estimated amount of 352 million species in the proboscideans. About 180 million years ago is when mammals started to arise from reptiles. Genetic sequencing then started to split 80 million years ago from the elephants ancestors. Moeritheriums were the roots to how the elephant was evolved 50-60 million years ago. The closest ancestors to the elephant were the Trilophodon, Deinotherium, Platybelodon, and Mastodons. Trilophodons lived 26 million years ago and had 4 tusks with 2 curving down and the other 2 curving upward. Deinotheriums lived 25 million years ago and had 2 tusks that curved downward. Platybelodons also lived 25 million years ago and had 2 flat tusks that also curved downward. The last ancestor is the Mastodon that lived 25 million years ago that was the size of the current day living elephant but was just built with lots of hair. The species inhabited in every continent except for Australia and Antarctica. People hypothesized that the elephant was probably able to exist in so many environments due to their ability to specializing in particular habitats. But then later on all but the African and Asian elephant died out. They soon figured out that the reason they were unable to adapt was because of their specialization skills. The species were just too large which made them unable to adapt well. The African elephant appeared 1.5 million years ago and was considered the "newest" elephant species. The African elephant was living in all of the African continent but is now just living in the South Sahara. The one thing that makes a elephant special is they have infrasonic hearing. This hearing allows them to hear sound waves so their predators can't hear them.

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Variation - The difference in organisms and their cells.

Inheritance - The passing down of traits to your offspring.

Selection - The preference of wanting another organism.

Time - The average time when new generations are created.

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The changing of sequence in the DNA, RNA, and proteins to new offspring. The picture below shows how the DNA got changed the pattern of the original

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This is when a organism show certain traits that their ancestors had. This picture below is one of the elephants ancestors. You can see how some factors the ancestor has the present day elephant also has. Like the tusks.

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The basic structures humans have that animals also have. Like the ear muscles, tail bone, appendix, and body hair. The picture below shows how the elephant has inherited hair

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When different organisms appear to have the same body structures like bones and organs.

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The different genotypes in small groups of organisms. The picture below shows the differences in the two different elephants.

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The preference for a specific sex of organism due to their characteristics.

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When organisms that aren't closely related evolve similar traits by the same environments.

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Independent similar traits an organisms gets from a common ancestor.

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The tracing back of two or more organisms to their common ancestor.

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Migration is the moving of organisms during seasons. Gene flow is the moving of genes onto others. Gene migration is the transferring of gene variations to organisms.

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The changing in a gene leading to many variations in the next generations. The picture below shows how the DNA changed.

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Genotypes that change overtime due to the environment that the organism is in and how it adapts to it. The picture below shows the change in elephants overtime.